World leaders are returning to the United Nations in New York this week with a focus on boosting efforts to fight both climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, which last year forced them to send video statements for the annual gathering.

Australia defended its scrapping of a deal for French submarines on Sunday, saying the government had raised concerns to Paris for months, as a new deal with the United States and Britain continued to fuel a multinational diplomatic crisis.

The pretrial hearing in the case against accused 9/11 attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others was

1985 - Up to 12,000 people were killed when an earthquake hit Mexico City and the adjoining region. The quake measured 8.1 on the Richter scale.

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Iran will not allow the Islamic State group to establish a presence on the country’s border with Afghanistan, President Ebrahim Raisi warned yesterday.

Russia’s elections commission said yesterday that it had recorded foreign interference in its ongoing three-day parliamentary elections.

The European Union and the United States yesterday called on more nations to join a pledge to slash methane gas emissions and cut warming by at least 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2050.

Yemen’s Huthi rebels said they executed nine people yesterday for involvement in the killing of one of their top leaders in a 2018 air strike claimed by Saudi Arabia.

France plunged into an unprecedented diplomatic crisis with the United States and Australia after it recalled its ambassadors from both countries over a trilateral security deal which sank a French-designed submarine contract with Canberra.

The will of Queen Elizabeth II’s late husband Prince Philip will remain sealed from the public for 90 years “to protect the dignity and standing” of the monarch, a High Court judge has ruled.

British officials have identified a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease.

US Capitol on high alert

France plunged into an unprecedented diplomatic crisis with the United States and Australia on Friday after it recalled its ambassadors from both countries over a trilateral security deal which sank a French-designed submarine contract with Canberra.

Despite several Asian cities topping the index over the years, Denmark's capital Copenhagen has been named the world’s safest city in a new wide-reaching study by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

A newly discovered Vincent Van Gogh drawing that has been hidden in a private collection for more than a century went on display for the first time at an Amsterdam museum on Thursday.

The world’s biggest trees were being wrapped in fire-proof blankets Thursday in an effort to protect them from huge blazes tearing through the drought-stricken western United States.

1961 - Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish statesman and Secretary-General of the United Nations, was killed in a plane crash in what was then Northern Rhodesia.

It’s long overdue. I’m not out to punish anyone. I’m a capitalist … All I’m asking is you pay your fair share. It’s about the super wealthy ­finally beginning to pay what they owe... I’m confident that Congress will deliver to my desk both the bipartisan infrastructure plan and the Build Back Better Plan I proposed.”

Australia has announced that more US troops will rotate through the island nation and that the allies will cooperate on missile development, the latest joint steps amid shared concerns about China’s increasing assertiveness in the region.